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convert smart quotes
Submitted by Rimu Atkinson on Tue, 16/02/2010 - 20:35
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function convert_smart_quotes($string)
{
// First, replace UTF-8 characters.
$string= str_replace(
array("\xe2\x80\x98", "\xe2\x80\x99", "\xe2\x80\x9c", "\xe2\x80\x9d", "\xe2\x80\x93", "\xe2\x80\x94", "\xe2\x80\xa6"),
array("'", "'", '"', '"', '-', '--', '...'),
$string);
// Next, replace their Windows-1252 equivalents.
$string = str_replace(
array(chr(145), chr(146), chr(147), chr(148), chr(150), chr(151), chr(133)),
array("'", "'", '"', '"', '-', '--', '...'),
$string);
return $string;
}
